Halo 3: Recon (Campaign Expansion)

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By now I think everyone has forgotten the end of HALO 3, but any chance that the falling thing is Master Chiefs ship onto a new earth colony?
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Somewhere it was said that it's New Mombassa from Halo 2.
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I wonder if this is the rumored ODST squad game. Or if this is Halo:Blue. :?
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You guys are both right: HALE Wiki:

In the newest trailer released by Bungie, the city of New Mombassa is depicted during the slipspace incident in which it is destroyed. This is confirmed by the sighting of the Space Elevator and a sign that states "<evacuate> City of New Mombassa." The new Halo Campaign experience, announced in the trailer suggest the game is probably going to follow a squad of sixteen ODST's fighting in Mombasa
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Kinda lame that we know the ending. :(
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Well, we already know the ending of Star Wars, look how much fans it massed up for the prequels :roll: . I think this expansion takes place somewhere between Halo 2-3. Its said that the orbital elevator fell already in Halo 3 (those "rings" you see in Tsavo Highway was part of it).
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I have not fully played the Halo 3 Campaign since I do not have a 360 but I have played a few missions and dueled my friends on it.
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Can't wait. :D
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Release is set in January of whatever it is I hear.
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I don't know if I should be excited or not...Bungie is sorta pissing me of lately, and I don't know why. :|
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Everyone's complaining about the 1.2 update, but after reading a billion topics on the Bungie forums, they gave folks exactly what they asked for.

I dunno -- as a newcomer to the game (I only owned the game for a week before the update) I like it better. Still, I can't wait for the Mythic map pack. And even though they've stated the ambiguous "There are no plans at this time" I still hope they add some new armor premutations like the Mark IV helmet (in the Halo Wars trailer) and the Arbiter armor for the elites.
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They said that it's impossible/really really hard to add new armor, as they have to set it up like all the rest (able to be one of the 20+ colors, able to be mixed, for the shoulders they need to be able to have every emblem...) that's almost 500 new pieces of armor needed to be programmed in.

As for the Mythic Map Pack, one of the dates found in the trailer was 11/16 (or 17, can't remember)/08, with the other two being 1/6/09 and 4/(something)/09, I'd guess November is the release date, plus it adds up if they show one map per week and then have the 3 week gap between the last preview and release.

As for 1.2, I love it. Gets rid of boosters and gives me a reset rank while keeping my old one intact.
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Fusion wrote:They said that it's impossible/really really hard to add new armor, as they have to set it up like all the rest
I realize that I dunno how Bungie programmed it, but if you look at existing games. . .
Fusion wrote:able to be one of the 20+ colors
Alpha channels + RGB mixer = easy coloring. Most games do it this way, including Jedi Academy (the colored parts of a custom jedi, for example)
Fusion wrote:able to be mixed
Simple show/hide commands are likely how it's done. So a new MC/Elite model with additional armor pieces that can be shown or hidden.
Fusion wrote:for the shoulders they need to be able to have every emblem
Also ridiculously easy. Shaders cover this problem with ease. It simply pastes it over the existing texture. I'm sure they did it this way, any other way would be insane.



Again, I don't work for Bungie or anything, but I'd say it's more of a "it's not on their radar" than a difficulty thing. Map packs, updates and bans are more important anyways. I'm just wishlisting. :mrgreen:
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I have no problem with the new update, I dunno, But something is making me lose respect for Bungie.
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I'd love it to land on 1/6/09, thats my birthday :D
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EGG_GUTS wrote:I have no problem with the new update, I dunno, But something is making me lose respect for Bungie.
I think we're all getting pissed at their lack of information lately, but hey, that brings a few analogies to mind. :mrgreen:
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What was that! Im a big Halo 3 fan but that was just slightly random
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I c no reason why u would loose respect sides for the new weird banhammer.
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